Cadwell Park- Red Flag Day
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Caldwell Park 1st October. Red Flag Day.
Just home from Javelin's track day at Cadwell Park.
Oh dear.
Great weather after a musty start. An open pit lane format.
All set for a good day out, But:-
Maybe 80 cars in total, mostly modified. Very few standard models.
By the time I gave up at 4pm, there had been 7 or 8 red flags and any number of black flags. A significant part of driving time was lost due to people who could not control their cars.
The safety briefing could not have been clearer but 10% or more of the cars lost control and left the circuit.
These morons overestimate their ability and have no consideration for the rest of us.
A dud day out.
Just home from Javelin's track day at Cadwell Park.
Oh dear.
Great weather after a musty start. An open pit lane format.
All set for a good day out, But:-
Maybe 80 cars in total, mostly modified. Very few standard models.
By the time I gave up at 4pm, there had been 7 or 8 red flags and any number of black flags. A significant part of driving time was lost due to people who could not control their cars.
The safety briefing could not have been clearer but 10% or more of the cars lost control and left the circuit.
These morons overestimate their ability and have no consideration for the rest of us.
A dud day out.
fat80b said:
Granted, a day spent with red flags is frustrating but with 80 cars out, that is fewer than 10% of cars having an incident. Probably some of those are mechanical rather than a lack of talent so perhaps not exactly fair on the population as a whole.
Quick drivers fall off occasionally too no? or should everyone be pootling round so carefully as to never make a mistake?
Genuine question - I try quite hard on track, I think the only red flag I caused was when the big end went on the Mazda but I have nearly binned it on more than one occasion and have come off a fair few times over the years.
Does that make me a moron or just more committed and hopefully quicker than others?
Bob
I trackday to get better / faster and sometimes I do run out of talent....
My worry is that when you run out of talent you either take me with you, or close the track so nobody else can drive for some time.Quick drivers fall off occasionally too no? or should everyone be pootling round so carefully as to never make a mistake?
Genuine question - I try quite hard on track, I think the only red flag I caused was when the big end went on the Mazda but I have nearly binned it on more than one occasion and have come off a fair few times over the years.
Does that make me a moron or just more committed and hopefully quicker than others?
Bob
I trackday to get better / faster and sometimes I do run out of talent....
If you follow your logic to its conclusion, we all keep driving faster and faster until we crash!
Yesterday at least one car was a right off, maybe two. Five of the 'offs' were not gentle kisses of the barrier, but full on losses of control. I do not think one in ten drivers losing control is acceptable.
One guy went nose first into the tyres, having been seriously too fast through the bends. Having patched the car up he went back out and tailgated repeatedly until he was black flagged. These morons do not understand that the track is a shared space.
For clarity, I am not saying that you are one of them, but for me the balance is between excitement and safety. If safety is ignored, it ends badly.
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